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Remember what it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
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because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
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like this? Remember when social media was truly social?
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Hey John, how's it going today?
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Well?
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This show is all about you die.
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This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on
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your finances, good health, and what to do for fun.
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Fifty plus brought to you by the UT Health Houston
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Institute on Aging, Informed Decisions for a healthier, happier life,
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and now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
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All right, here we go.
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Thursday edition of the show starts right now. Thank you
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all for joining me, Thank you all for listening. And
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I just found out I may have.
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Where did it go here? Let me double check something
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here real quick. Okay, that's there.
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I've got some stuff to talk about this morning as
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we go through the program, a lot of things, including
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two guests. I didn't even have a chance to put
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everything on Facebook because I was just that swamp this morning.
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But in the second segment, we'll talk to doctor John Higgins,
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as we have so many times, and he's so good.
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We're gonna talk a little bit about cognitive health and
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how exercise impacts that and then in segment three, we're
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gonna talk to a guy named Philip Taylor from the
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Buckingham which is a very nice assisted living, independent living,
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assisted living, nursing care. All of that wrapped into one
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over off a woodway. We'll talk to him in that
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third segment about what to look for if that's something
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you're having to do, is think about moving out of
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the home you've been in for many, many years for
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whatever reasons.
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We'll cover all of that.
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By the way, a couple of oh I got an
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email or a text message a little while ago from
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Jeff wanting to know some stuff about deer pros, not
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deer processing, but where he could hand off a lot
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of already processed venison, and I send him toward the
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Hunters for the Hungry program. If you are a hunter
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you happen to be, and you happen to have deer
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that you need to take off the property but don't
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have room for in your own freezer, that Hunters for
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the Hungry program has been around for decades and it
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really does a good job of forwarding that very high
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protein meat to families who need it. So there's that
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something else I wanted to get to before I go
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too much farther into the show. On Saturday, I learned
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from a guy named Justin Goldstein who hands me really
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good interviews, many of them on all kinds of subjects.
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He's a really trusted source.
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And what he sent me today is something about Energy
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Day stem festival that's this Saturday from eleven to three
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at sam Houston Park downtown. Says here, Energy Day is
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a free family festival dedicated to science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Pretty important things to know if you want to do
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well in this world. And it's designed, it says here
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to inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, and innovators.
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There's going to be interactive exhibits, there's going to be
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a lot of demonstrations showcasing the world of energy, and
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then giveaways and stuff for all ages. So if you
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can be downtown at sam Houston Park from eleven to
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three on Saturday, that's why there's a crowd there. Another
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thing I found that I wanted to talk about, and
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this is something that just popped onto my screen. I
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don't remember where I was, what I was looking at
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when it came up. And this is way down the
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road really for the holidays. But if you get your
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orders in, and I think a lot of you will
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want to do this. It'll be something really cool to
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give to somebody, whether it's giving it to a child,
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a grandchild, a parent, anybody who has kids who are
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into sports, and that's most people these days, if your
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kids are into sports. I got a solicitation from a
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company that's called Dyo Best Do yow Best, and I
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believe that company is offshore. I'm pretty sure it is
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from the email exchanges I've had in any event, wherever
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it is. What they offer is a Christmas tree ornament.
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I think it's like three and a half four and
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a half five and a half inches tall on which
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you can have kind of a replication of your own
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child in. I think it's ceramic or something really not ceramic,
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but just it's plastic basically. But anyway, it's kind of
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a cool thing. I think you get to pick the
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sport you want. I know, because I've already and if
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you are listening, and you know, my wife, don't tell
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her I about this because this is as much for
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her as for anybody else. But what you get to
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choose is whether it's a boy or a girl. You
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get to choose skin color, hair color, and then on
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the back of the jersey, the one I got has
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shows a depiction of my son at the plate at
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bat And what it also does is have last name
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or you can put first name or last name on
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it and the kid's jersey number.
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And it's just a really cool thing.
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And it was even with shipping, which you know how
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shipping costs are, but even with that, it was like
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twenty five bucks or something like that. And I know
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she'll like that. That'll be one of her moving forward.
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That'll be one of her favorite favorite ornaments on that tree.
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I just know it will. I hope it will. It
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is a pretty cool thing.
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I was talking to a couple of the people here
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who have children in sports, and I don't remember who
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it was who passed by and said, that's a great
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idea for somebody to buy for the kids as well,
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so they have their own special ornament on the tree,
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and then grandparents the whole nine yards. Anybody who cares
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about that child of yours in their athletic future. I'm
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sure this company can do it. It's d OYO do
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your best dot com and my order's already been placed.
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They even give you a little discount code for that
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first purchase, and I mistakenly I had the code written
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down yesterday, but I couldn't find it. And after I
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placed my order today, I saw this contact us space
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and I thought, you know what, I'll just take a
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swing at it.
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And I just kind of pleaded my case.
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Look, I got on the site yesterday, so I couldn't
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be a new user today, but I didn't find my order,
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my discount code. It's only ten percent, but I didn't
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find my discount code until i'd already placed my order.
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Anything you can do for me, and they said, sure,
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we'll have the ten percent taking off your card. It'll
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be there in three or four business days, whatever it takes.
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But and again it wasn't much money.
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It's about a buck and a half maybe, or maybe
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a couple of dollars. But still that was very nice
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of them to do that. Market indicators were up around
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one or ten thirty, but as we heard in the
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Fox News report, now back down. Little bit oil up
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a little, but still well blow sixty dollars in gold.
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Oh oh gold up eighty three dollars an ounce today,
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nearly two percent and sitting at four thousand two hundred
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and eighty four.
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Dollars per ounce.
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If you could use a couple of bucks and you
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have a couple of things made out of with any
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gold content in them, Hey, if you need rent money
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or whatever it is, now'd be the time to get
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it out of that gold. Let's go straight to the break,
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shall we. Late Health I've talked about them now for
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several years, and I'm still amazed at how many of
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these prostate artery embolizations they do over there. It's the
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most commonly performed procedure in this vascular clinic. And what
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it does essentially is go in identify the artery that's
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providing that non cancerost and large prostate prostate with fresh blood.
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It shuts off that supply and it makes the symptoms
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go away. And it's just that simple for guys in
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their fifties, sixties, seventies, even the older you get, the
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better your chance of having this. And if you have it,
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you know what the symptoms are and you know.
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You don't like them.
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A Late Health also does a lot of other things,
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many many other things, too many to mention here, but
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go to the website and just see if there's anything
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that they can do for you to make you feel better,
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look better, whatever it may be. A lat e a
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latehealth dot com. Most of what they do is covered
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by Medicare and Medicaid, and they do regenerative medicine as
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well for chronic pain. Seven to one, three five eight, eight,
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thirty eight eighty eight, seven to one, three, five eight, eight,
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thirty eight eighty.
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Eight Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike plus.
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Thank you for listening.
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I'm going to put my glasses back on and thank
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you for sharing your day, not mine.
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Uh.
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In this segment, we're going to talk about cognitive health,
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which has been in the news a whole lot more
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frequently during the past couple of years. Exercise in general
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can help your brain health, and some exercises do a
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better job of that than others. And to sort it
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all out, I will welcome back to this program frequent
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flyer doctor John Higgins, cardiologist at mcgoverned Medical School at
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UT Health, an official cardiologists for the Rockets and Rice Athletics.
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Welcome back, Doc, Hey, Doug Man.
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Hopefully you've got your workout in already today.
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Yeah, Well, at my desk, at my desk, answering phones
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and right emails anyway, So what's the simple overall definition
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of cognitive health?
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So basically that's Doug feel listeners. You know how well
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you can kind of think, remember, plan, focus, and adapt
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you know, basically your brain kind of reacting to things
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around you and adapting.
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I've read something somewhere recently, a few days ago. I
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think that parts of your brain start to go into
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decline like in your thirties, and other parts can still
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learn more even into your sixties and seventies.
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Is that about right or no?
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Yeah, no, that is definitely right. In fact, Doug, you
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know the kind of that siduco craze that you know
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a lot of people got into. There was some studies
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on that showing that people that were, you know, doing
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that who are over fifty did have improvements in in
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cultinative tests. And you know other people that are you know,
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doing more less spreen time and more kind of thinking
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time and and just you know, doing using their brain
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and not just kind of watching trash, they definitely will
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improve their cognition.
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Garbage in garbage out right. And just so many years
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now we've been told that the crossword puzzle, Sidoku, all
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of that stuff would keep our brain sharp. And it
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turns out as you said, it does. What I'm reading
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also though, is that there's cognitive benefit from a variety
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of physical exercises.
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Kind of explain that if you can.
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Yeah, no, absolutely, Doug. So you know, working on getting
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brain working, you know, with solving problems definitely helps, but
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also getting out there and exercising so you know, everything
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from you know, improving your memory. It's been shown with
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pretty much all exercise now. Originally the data was on
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the aerobic exercise, but now it's also been shown with
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strength training, resistance training, even things like you know, yoga,
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tai chi now and essentially, Doug. The the physiological reason
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is that the exercise will actually boost the blood flow
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to important areas of the brain. It also decrease races
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things in your blood that you know, oxidants and other
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things that kind of slow down the brain. So you've
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got you know, improvement in the things that help the
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brain and reduction in the things that don't help the brain.
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Brain everything from you know, insulin resistance, improving that, improving
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glucose levels as well as so it's got there's a
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physical thing going on. But also they have found that
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you know, other things are being released when you're exercise,
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like endorphins, which makes you happier, reduces stress and anxiety,
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It improves people's sleep. When they exercise during the day,
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they feel better about themselves.
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Oftentimes, you know, people that are exercising, you know, when
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they look in the mirror, feel happier because they are
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actually you know, a bit better with their weight control
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and whatnot. As well as a lot of people exercise
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with other people so they're less lonely and less isolated,
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all with their dog, you know, their best furry friends
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they call it. But there's so many benefits and Doug
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no matter you know, what condition you're in, you can
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do something. You know, you may not be able to
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go out jogging, pounding the pavement or riding a bike,
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but you know, like I said before, some of those
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exercises even just stretching, you know, yoga, tai chi, you know,
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stationary bike, just walking. You know, that's what I would
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say that people just you know, get out there and walk.
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That's probably the easiest exercise and that's been definitely shown
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to benefit of the brain.
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Doctor John Higgins here on fifty plus, you and I
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have talked about exercise and the importance of it. So
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just almost every interview we do and emphasize that you
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just one step at a time. For for somebody who's
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at that level, haven't really exercised in a long long time.
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But think, bye, gosh, these guys convinced me, I'm gonna
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do this.
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What's the short term goal?
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You know, one step down the driveway and back, that's
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all they can do today.
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What's the kind of the two weeks, three weeks goal?
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Okay, well, Doug, I would say, you know, just try
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to do five to ten minutes if you can today,
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just walking around, whether it be in the house if
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it's too hot, or you know, out there in the street,
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and then each week try to build that up by
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you know, about five minutes until you get to the
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goal is going to be about thirty minutes per day
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for five days of the week. So that'll so you
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can have a break for a couple of days and
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that'll clock you up to the one fifty minutes. That
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seems like the magic amount, Doug, but a right, if
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people can't get to that, even doing you know, ten
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minutes a day will actually benefit the.
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Brain, you know, I wrote something down when I was
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prepping for this visit with you that one of the
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one of the other goals in exercise, aside from just
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the ind cremental increase each day or week or whatever
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you want to do, is trying to hit that spot
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where you see and feel better and that makes you
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want to do even more, doesn't.
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It exactly, Doug That it's it's a powerful motivator, and
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it kind of gets into a cycle where you know,
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you feel better your exercise. You know, you're getting better
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and better. Now I would say warn people, Doug, that
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too much of anything is not good, and that also
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includes exercise. Now, you know, some people go to the
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extreme and they overdo it. You know, they get into
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it and they get sort of hilked on the endorphins
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and now they're running, you know, marathons every weekend. I mean,
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you don't definitely do not have to do that. And
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in fact, too much exercise can actually be detrimental. But
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the important thing for the brain health, Doug, seems to be,
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you know, get getting some exercise most days of the
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week and mixing it up, you know, so try different things.
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You know, start with walking, but then you can maybe
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you know, go and do some resistance training, you know,
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join a gym or just you know, get some weights
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and do it at home. Maybe do you know, tennis
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with a friend, or you know, join a club that
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does a particular type of exercise once a week. So
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mix up, you know, the you know, start off, you
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can start off with the walking, but but the goal
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is to branch into different things, particularly things that you
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enjoy doing.
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In thirty seconds or less, so we don't scare anybody off.
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Talk about the difference between minor age rated age related
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forgetfulness and clinical cognitive decline if I can say them all.
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Sure, Doug. So you know, everyone as they age forgets things.
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You know, they forgot where they park the car, you know,
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forgot where they put the keys. Now the the extreme
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is where you actually, you know, forget most of the
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things that you're trying to do during the day. You
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get frequently lost. You know, you may forget that you
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have something cooking on the stove and you know the fire,
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you know, you create a fire or alarms go off, right,
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So once people start and you forget people you know,
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or you forget appointments. So once things, you know, regular
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daily activities that you normally do are being impaired because
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of your brain function, that's probably time to you know,
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get checked out. The usual thing is okay, you know,
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just forgetting your keys once in a while or your phone.
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That's totally okay, all right, just making sure.
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Thank you so much once again, doctor John Higgins. I
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appreciate your time.
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You know that, all right, Roger, that thanks sir.
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My pleasure.
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All right, Off we go to Champions Tree Preservation. I
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just swapped emails with Irwin Costallano's the man who owns
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a company, and he's an arborist. His son, Robin is
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an arbist, and they will come to your house and
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make sure your trees are ready for whatever storm, season
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or winter or summer throws at them, whether it's a
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little bitty feeding, maybe a little simple feeding, or some
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pruning or limb lopping or total removal of a tree,
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whatever it is. And I just talked to somebody earlier
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today who had to go through all of that, all
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of the above with all the trees in her yard
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after they.
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Got checked out.
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And what I'm finding is that an arborist is the
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only person who's really gonna be able to tell you
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exactly what's going on with your trees. And that's where
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Robin and Numb and Gosh Erwin lost. Thanks John Higgins,
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you made me forget something. Erwin and Robin will come
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to your house. They'll make sure those trees are right,
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and if they need something, they're gonna bring a crew.
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They're gonna send a crew out behind them to take
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care of whatever it is up to and including the
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removal of a two damage to save tree doesn't happen often,
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but when it does, they can take that tree out
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for you and then they can replace it with something
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from their tree farm where they grow native Texas trees.
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Get them out. We're gonna talk about next week. We're
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gonna talk about winterizing your trees and how important that is.
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I have Irwin on I believe it's next Friday. I've
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got him scheduled for be sure to listen in on
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that one two eight one three two zero eighty two
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zero one two eight one three two zero eighty two
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zero one or the website championstree dot com. That's championstree
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dot com.
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Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
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That's why every few months we wash them. Check his
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fluids and spring on a fresh cod o wax. This
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is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back
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to fifty plus. Thanks for listening, certainly do appreciate it.
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On this what fourth or fifth great day in a row.
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In this segment, we're gonna talk about what to look
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for and what to expect when it's time and it's
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a big decision when it's time to move out of
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your home or maybe your family's telling you you need
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to even if you don't want to, And to talk
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about that, I'm gonna bring in Philip Taylor from the Buckingham,
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one of Houston's best choices in this in this realm,
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Welcome aboard, Philip, I.
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Dug thinks it's good to spend time with you.
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Don't be coughing through the phone on me now.
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We talked about that a little bit.
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I know about ahead of you. Sound great, man, You're fine.
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The Buckingham Big Place twenty three acres gated community over
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there on Woodway that offers pretty much every level of
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care a family member could need to do. Most senior
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living facilities follow a similar model of providing as much
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or as little assistance as a resident might need for
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long term or do more of them kind of stay
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in one or two lanes.
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Most of them stay in one or two lanes. There's
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just a broad mix of communities that have different services,
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different combinations of services. It's the small percentage of communities
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that have an independent living where people are definitely going
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to come to live permanently and then knowing they're going
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to a community that has the full continuum of care.
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That's the small percentage that do that. And when I
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say full continuum, it's assisted living, it's memory support, skilled nursing,
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long term care. Most people who've had stays in the
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hospitals will come here for short term rehab, and you
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know those are usually if you've had to stay in
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the hospital for three nights, then Medicare is going to
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reimburse your stay when you come here for rehab. So
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we've got it all. There's some other communities that have
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it all, but I would say most are just sort
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of a combination of that.
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Kind of assisted nursing, maybe what level, whatever level of
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care somebody needs, whatever their reasons for moving out of
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the home, whether they did it voluntarily, or their sibling
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or their children push them out. Whatever I'd imagine a
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lot of them arrive with some apprehension and concern about
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fitting in. How do facilities such as yours help these
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folks adapt to their new surroundings.
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Well, we have in most communities will have marketing events
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where they might have a resident panel where they can
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come and talk to the residents, ask them questions, and
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maybe luncheons where you do a presentation about your community.
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Sometimes we'll have people come stay a night or two
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at the Buckingham on our dime, call it a staycation,
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so they can get to know the staff, get to
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know the residents. And because we're in constant contact with
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a lot of people, I tell them to come often
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to the Buckingham because once you determine that it's the
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place that you take seriously and you think you may
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move there, we actually want you to be assimilated by
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the time you do in, so you know how to
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get around, you know who you're talking to, you know
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the food and where to get it, and all those
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types of things. So it's good to visit often. And
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it's not a burden to us that you do. It's
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not you know, we're not you're not telling us that
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you're making a commitment because you're coming, but we know
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that you're here to take a serious lead and to
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get to know us.
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Yeah, one of the you answered one of the questions
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I had on the list, is one tour of a
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property enough to really evaluate it?
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And I would I would.
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Really no, It's it's a lot. I would recommend people
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visit multiple communities, so each time you walk through the
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door of a community, you get just a different feel
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from that community.
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You need.
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You'll get a different feel that'll that'll be telling you
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need to try the food. And and then of course
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everybody's got a different pricing model. So it's a lot.
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It's a lot to absorb for people, and so it's
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uh for those people who plan ahead, that's that's the
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best way to go, because we always tell people, you know,
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it's better to come five years too early than five
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years too late.
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Amen to that.
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Is it okay at most places to show up un
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announced for tours? I know you have to be respectfuble
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of the employee's time, but is it kind of okay
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to just walk in and see what's really happening in there?
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It's okay to do that. We would prefer scheduled tours
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and appointments, But sometimes walk ins can really they can
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turn out to happen very well. In fact, I had
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one one day and I had no idea. She was
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ready to do business, and we were able to do
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a tour, answer all the questions, and you know, they
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signed the paperwork that same day. So you just never know.
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Yeah, that's that's that's ideal circumstances. Of course, what's the
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what's the usual timeline from first contact to somebody signing in?
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Oh man, We've had people that have been in the
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system since two thousand and two. We didn't even open
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until two thousand and five. Sometimes it's a matter of days,
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but usually it's a matter of weeks and months before
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somebody finally makes that decision.
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Yeah, I know somebody who's in the middle of that
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right now, and she's probably four or five months into
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the decision and still still at.
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kids are doing the legwork and the discovery, and sometimes
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they're not always on the same page as mom or dad,
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and and there are sometimes where the kids know that
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it's time and they will put their foot down sometimes
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and ultimately, you know, when you have a resident panel.
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that experience. And when they move in, and then they
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get settled in, ultimately you'll hear them say, you know,
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the kids were right, we were wrong. It was the
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right thing to do.
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We're down to thirty seconds, Philip. I hate to do
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it too.
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But for somebody mind audience who's on the fence about
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moving into someplace like the Buckingham, what's the most reassuring
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thing you'd tell them about taking that step in their lives.
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is when you have a culture like ours that's designed
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to offer a plethora of socialization, or a good fitness program,
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a great culinary team, you know, think about how important
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it is for you to move into a culture where
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you actually become a better version of yourself than being
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alone at home.
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That's really good. That's good, Philip, Thank you so much.
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I've got a run. I appreciate it. Yes, sir, here
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Buckingham Houston dot com.
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Go there.
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You'll see what I'm talking about. A beautiful place.
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All right, we got to take a little break care
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On the way out, I'll tell you about Cedar Cove
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RV Resort. Cedar Cove ARV Resort is down at the
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end of Tri City Beach Road, right there on Galveson Bay,
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and boy, we are coming into a wonderful season to
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be spending days and nights on the water down that way.
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If you have an RV, a motor home, a pop
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up trailer, whatever it is, you can park it on
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a concrete slab. Enjoy the rustling of the wind through
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the palm fronds. Enjoy the water lapping onto the shoreline.
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There sewer water and electric at every site. Wi FI,
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the bathhouse, the showers, the convenience store, because everybody forgets
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something when they go that way, and it's a pretty
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dog one good fishing this time of year. Actually, if
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you want to stay up right to sunset, or maybe
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get up right before dawn and throw a little bait
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out there, run down to Thompson's, get yourself some live shrimping,
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come back and see what you can catch. By the way,
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if you don't own a vehicle to park on one
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of those slabs, the owners Alan Nancy Kibbi will be
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happy to rent you one. They have an RV that's
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available for that, so you can kind of try it
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before you buy it. As goes a motor home, that's
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a big investment. If you're not really sure you want
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that type of lifestyle, try it out first with their RV.
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I think that's a fantastic way to get a taste.
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And I'm pretty sure you're gonna like what you're what's
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been cooking down there Cedar Cove rvresort dot com, Cedar
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Cove rvresort dot com.
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What's life without a net? I suggest you go to bed,
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sleep it off.
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Just wait until the show's over.
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Sleepy.
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Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
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Fourth and final segment of the show starts.
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Now. I hope you've enjoyed it so far. Let me
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see where I want to go here? Do I want
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to get into something really newsy? We don't have a
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breaking news sound, so that's a right.
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Oh.
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By the way, there were two things going on out
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in California, both of which involved Governor gambling. Gavin Newsom
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out there betting the farm that his weirdness is going
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to somehow gain him favor with the American people. He's
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got to be thinking he's going to be the next
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president of the United States and I got a big
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old hunch that he's dead or on because he keeps
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making mistakes, the first of which is going to infuriate
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Second Amendment people. What he's done out there is passed
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into law AB thirteen forty four, which establishes an anti
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gun law in four test counties where district attorneys are
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going to be able to file directly for gun violence
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restraining orders gvros, and those orders, when granted, will allow
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enforcement to just confiscate any and all firearms owned by
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the person whose name's on the order. The plan, they
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say is to track results through twenty thirty one, with
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annual reporting to the California Firearm Violence Research Center at
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UC Davis starting in twenty twenty seven. This one kind
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of falls into my give them an inch file even
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before I'm gonna make a bet with you, even before
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the first reports are filed. Watch for Newsom to expand
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the program because he's heard it's working. That's what he's
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going to tell you. I've heard great things about this program.
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We have kept a lot of people from having guns
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who don't need guns. Well, who's to say when you're
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gonna need one and when you're not. If somebody is
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just as bonkers, and there is legitimate reason to think
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they are an imminent danger to society. That's one thing.
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But this notion that district attorneys can it's all going
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to depend on the weight of the evidence against the
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person who's in question, because if they run amuck with this,
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which I think they will, there will be a lot
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of people being disarmed and just left vulnerable and targeted
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by false reporting to district attorneys because once I got
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a hunch that once something crosses their desk, they have
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to follow up on it.
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They have to do due diligence.
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And if the person who's making the complaint against someone
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else and thinks they might be in danger comes in
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and says that guy over there as crazy as alone
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and I'm scared he's gonna shoot me. DA is going
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to have to do something. And if they can't prove
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the complain it wrong, then the guy on the other
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end of it might just have his Second Amendment rights
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taken away, just on a hunch that somebody's got. It's
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a very slippery slope and I'm not really I'm not
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really into it. I'm not really for it, but we'll
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have to see. We'll just have to see how it
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works out out there. That's a good place for it.
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At least I'm to take care of that. Joe, Well,
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a minute left too, left? Two good, let's do this.
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Halloween's on the way, and wouldn't you know it, an
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online betting site. It doesn't say which one here, it
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doesn't matter, has crunched the numbers, it says, and figured
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out your kid's chances of getting different types of candy
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on Halloween. A sixty seven percent chance, it says here,
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that they'll get at least one Reese's peanut butter cup.
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Doesn't say whether full sized or bite sized. My guess
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is it's probably going to be bite sized. These days,
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you have a thirty three percent chance of getting a
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Twix and a two percent chance.
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Of finding a toothbrush in the bag. That should be higher.
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It just seems I saw something about some hilarious dentist
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and his idea is on a cavity free Halloween.
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But I didn't read it.
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It just the entire premise boored me to tears. Is
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apparently a trend of people taking many pumpkins to Starbucks too,
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which really bothers me. What they're doing is they're taking
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these little little pumpkins to Starbucks, all hollowed out, and
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then getting the Bearista to fill them with the drink
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they order. That's cute and all, but it also is
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against public health law. I would think to bring produce
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in from outside and have the people who are making
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drinks for everybody have to touch your pumpkin. It's kind
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of like dogs in the grocery store. We talked about that.
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I believe yesterday how much that bothers me. There is
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a crazy AI milestone I'll give you on the way
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out here. AI has found its way into just about
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everything and is on the verge or beyond the verge,
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depending on who you ask and what you read. Of
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being able to perform without any more human help, AI
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is just basically saying we got it. Step out of
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the way, or we will destroy you. Study found that
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over half of the online articles written now either all
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by AI or mostly by AI. Fortunately, Will and I
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are still live. Will take care of you.
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Remember what it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
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because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
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like this? Remember when social media was truly social?
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Hey John, how's it going today?
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Well?
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This show is all about you die.
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This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on
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All right, here we go.
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Thursday edition of the show starts right now. Thank you
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all for joining me, Thank you all for listening. And
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I just found out I may have.
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Where did it go here? Let me double check something
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here real quick. Okay, that's there.
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I've got some stuff to talk about this morning as
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we go through the program, a lot of things, including
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two guests. I didn't even have a chance to put
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everything on Facebook because I was just that swamp this morning.
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But in the second segment, we'll talk to doctor John Higgins,
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as we have so many times, and he's so good.
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We're gonna talk a little bit about cognitive health and
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how exercise impacts that and then in segment three, we're
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gonna talk to a guy named Philip Taylor from the
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Buckingham which is a very nice assisted living, independent living,
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assisted living, nursing care. All of that wrapped into one
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over off a woodway. We'll talk to him in that
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third segment about what to look for if that's something
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you're having to do, is think about moving out of
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the home you've been in for many, many years for
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whatever reasons.
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We'll cover all of that.
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By the way, a couple of oh I got an
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email or a text message a little while ago from
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Jeff wanting to know some stuff about deer pros, not
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deer processing, but where he could hand off a lot
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of already processed venison, and I send him toward the
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Hunters for the Hungry program. If you are a hunter
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you happen to be, and you happen to have deer
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that you need to take off the property but don't
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have room for in your own freezer, that Hunters for
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the Hungry program has been around for decades and it
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really does a good job of forwarding that very high
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protein meat to families who need it. So there's that
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something else I wanted to get to before I go
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too much farther into the show. On Saturday, I learned
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from a guy named Justin Goldstein who hands me really
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good interviews, many of them on all kinds of subjects.
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He's a really trusted source.
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And what he sent me today is something about Energy
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Day stem festival that's this Saturday from eleven to three
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at sam Houston Park downtown. Says here, Energy Day is
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a free family festival dedicated to science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Pretty important things to know if you want to do
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well in this world. And it's designed, it says here
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to inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, and innovators.
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There's going to be interactive exhibits, there's going to be
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a lot of demonstrations showcasing the world of energy, and
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then giveaways and stuff for all ages. So if you
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can be downtown at sam Houston Park from eleven to
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three on Saturday, that's why there's a crowd there. Another
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thing I found that I wanted to talk about, and
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this is something that just popped onto my screen. I
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don't remember where I was, what I was looking at
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when it came up. And this is way down the
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road really for the holidays. But if you get your
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orders in, and I think a lot of you will
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want to do this. It'll be something really cool to
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give to somebody, whether it's giving it to a child,
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a grandchild, a parent, anybody who has kids who are
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into sports, and that's most people these days, if your
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kids are into sports. I got a solicitation from a
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company that's called Dyo Best Do yow Best, and I
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believe that company is offshore. I'm pretty sure it is
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from the email exchanges I've had in any event, wherever
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it is. What they offer is a Christmas tree ornament.
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I think it's like three and a half four and
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a half five and a half inches tall on which
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you can have kind of a replication of your own
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child in. I think it's ceramic or something really not ceramic,
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but just it's plastic basically. But anyway, it's kind of
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a cool thing. I think you get to pick the
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sport you want. I know, because I've already and if
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you are listening, and you know, my wife, don't tell
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her I about this because this is as much for
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her as for anybody else. But what you get to
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choose is whether it's a boy or a girl. You
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get to choose skin color, hair color, and then on
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the back of the jersey, the one I got has
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shows a depiction of my son at the plate at
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bat And what it also does is have last name
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or you can put first name or last name on
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it and the kid's jersey number.
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shipping costs are, but even with that, it was like
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twenty five bucks or something like that. And I know
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she'll like that. That'll be one of her moving forward.
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That'll be one of her favorite favorite ornaments on that tree.
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I just know it will. I hope it will. It
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is a pretty cool thing.
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I was talking to a couple of the people here
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who have children in sports, and I don't remember who
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it was who passed by and said, that's a great
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idea for somebody to buy for the kids as well,
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so they have their own special ornament on the tree,
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and then grandparents the whole nine yards. Anybody who cares
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I'm going to put my glasses back on and thank
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you for sharing your day, not mine.
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In this segment, we're going to talk about cognitive health,
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which has been in the news a whole lot more
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frequently during the past couple of years. Exercise in general
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can help your brain health, and some exercises do a
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better job of that than others. And to sort it
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all out, I will welcome back to this program frequent
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flyer doctor John Higgins, cardiologist at mcgoverned Medical School at
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UT Health, an official cardiologists for the Rockets and Rice Athletics.
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Welcome back, Doc, Hey, Doug Man.
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Hopefully you've got your workout in already today.
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Yeah, Well, at my desk, at my desk, answering phones
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and right emails anyway, So what's the simple overall definition
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of cognitive health?
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So basically that's Doug feel listeners. You know how well
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you can kind of think, remember, plan, focus, and adapt
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you know, basically your brain kind of reacting to things
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around you and adapting.
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I've read something somewhere recently, a few days ago. I
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think that parts of your brain start to go into
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decline like in your thirties, and other parts can still
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learn more even into your sixties and seventies.
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Is that about right or no?
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Yeah, no, that is definitely right. In fact, Doug, you
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know the kind of that siduco craze that you know
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a lot of people got into. There was some studies
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on that showing that people that were, you know, doing
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that who are over fifty did have improvements in in
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cultinative tests. And you know other people that are you know,
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doing more less spreen time and more kind of thinking
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time and and just you know, doing using their brain
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and not just kind of watching trash, they definitely will
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improve their cognition.
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Garbage in garbage out right. And just so many years
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now we've been told that the crossword puzzle, Sidoku, all
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of that stuff would keep our brain sharp. And it
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turns out as you said, it does. What I'm reading
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also though, is that there's cognitive benefit from a variety
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of physical exercises.
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Kind of explain that if you can.
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Yeah, no, absolutely, Doug. So you know, working on getting
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brain working, you know, with solving problems definitely helps, but
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also getting out there and exercising so you know, everything
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from you know, improving your memory. It's been shown with
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pretty much all exercise now. Originally the data was on
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the aerobic exercise, but now it's also been shown with
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strength training, resistance training, even things like you know, yoga,
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tai chi now and essentially, Doug. The the physiological reason
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is that the exercise will actually boost the blood flow
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to important areas of the brain. It also decrease races
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things in your blood that you know, oxidants and other
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things that kind of slow down the brain. So you've
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got you know, improvement in the things that help the
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brain and reduction in the things that don't help the brain.
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Brain everything from you know, insulin resistance, improving that, improving
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glucose levels as well as so it's got there's a
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physical thing going on. But also they have found that
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you know, other things are being released when you're exercise,
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like endorphins, which makes you happier, reduces stress and anxiety,
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they feel better about themselves.
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they look in the mirror, feel happier because they are
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actually you know, a bit better with their weight control
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and whatnot. As well as a lot of people exercise
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with other people so they're less lonely and less isolated,
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all with their dog, you know, their best furry friends
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they call it. But there's so many benefits and Doug
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no matter you know, what condition you're in, you can
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do something. You know, you may not be able to
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go out jogging, pounding the pavement or riding a bike,
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but you know, like I said before, some of those
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exercises even just stretching, you know, yoga, tai chi, you know,
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stationary bike, just walking. You know, that's what I would
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say that people just you know, get out there and walk.
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That's probably the easiest exercise and that's been definitely shown
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to benefit of the brain.
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Doctor John Higgins here on fifty plus, you and I
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have talked about exercise and the importance of it. So
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just almost every interview we do and emphasize that you
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just one step at a time. For for somebody who's
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at that level, haven't really exercised in a long long time.
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do this.
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What's the short term goal?
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You know, one step down the driveway and back, that's
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all they can do today.
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What's the kind of the two weeks, three weeks goal?
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Okay, well, Doug, I would say, you know, just try
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to do five to ten minutes if you can today,
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just walking around, whether it be in the house if
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it's too hot, or you know, out there in the street,
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and then each week try to build that up by
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you know, about five minutes until you get to the
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goal is going to be about thirty minutes per day
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for five days of the week. So that'll so you
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can have a break for a couple of days and
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that'll clock you up to the one fifty minutes. That
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seems like the magic amount, Doug, but a right, if
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people can't get to that, even doing you know, ten
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minutes a day will actually benefit the.
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Brain, you know, I wrote something down when I was
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prepping for this visit with you that one of the
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one of the other goals in exercise, aside from just
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the ind cremental increase each day or week or whatever
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you want to do, is trying to hit that spot
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where you see and feel better and that makes you
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want to do even more, doesn't.
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It exactly, Doug That it's it's a powerful motivator, and
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it kind of gets into a cycle where you know,
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you feel better your exercise. You know, you're getting better
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and better. Now I would say warn people, Doug, that
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too much of anything is not good, and that also
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includes exercise. Now, you know, some people go to the
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extreme and they overdo it. You know, they get into
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it and they get sort of hilked on the endorphins
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and now they're running, you know, marathons every weekend. I mean,
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you don't definitely do not have to do that. And
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in fact, too much exercise can actually be detrimental. But
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the important thing for the brain health, Doug, seems to be,
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you know, get getting some exercise most days of the
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week and mixing it up, you know, so try different things.
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You know, start with walking, but then you can maybe
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you know, go and do some resistance training, you know,
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join a gym or just you know, get some weights
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and do it at home. Maybe do you know, tennis
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with a friend, or you know, join a club that
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does a particular type of exercise once a week. So
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mix up, you know, the you know, start off, you
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can start off with the walking, but but the goal
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is to branch into different things, particularly things that you
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enjoy doing.
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In thirty seconds or less, so we don't scare anybody off.
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Talk about the difference between minor age rated age related
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forgetfulness and clinical cognitive decline if I can say them all.
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Sure, Doug. So you know, everyone as they age forgets things.
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You know, they forgot where they park the car, you know,
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forgot where they put the keys. Now the the extreme
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is where you actually, you know, forget most of the
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things that you're trying to do during the day. You
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get frequently lost. You know, you may forget that you
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have something cooking on the stove and you know the fire,
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you know, you create a fire or alarms go off, right,
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So once people start and you forget people you know,
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or you forget appointments. So once things, you know, regular
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daily activities that you normally do are being impaired because
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of your brain function, that's probably time to you know,
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get checked out. The usual thing is okay, you know,
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just forgetting your keys once in a while or your phone.
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That's totally okay, all right, just making sure.
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Thank you so much once again, doctor John Higgins. I
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appreciate your time.
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You know that, all right, Roger, that thanks sir.
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My pleasure.
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All right, Off we go to Champions Tree Preservation. I
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just swapped emails with Irwin Costallano's the man who owns
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a company, and he's an arborist. His son, Robin is
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an arbist, and they will come to your house and
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make sure your trees are ready for whatever storm, season
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or winter or summer throws at them, whether it's a
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little bitty feeding, maybe a little simple feeding, or some
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pruning or limb lopping or total removal of a tree,
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whatever it is. And I just talked to somebody earlier
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today who had to go through all of that, all
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of the above with all the trees in her yard
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after they.
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Got checked out.
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And what I'm finding is that an arborist is the
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only person who's really gonna be able to tell you
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exactly what's going on with your trees. And that's where
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Robin and Numb and Gosh Erwin lost. Thanks John Higgins,
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you made me forget something. Erwin and Robin will come
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to your house. They'll make sure those trees are right,
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and if they need something, they're gonna bring a crew.
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They're gonna send a crew out behind them to take
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care of whatever it is up to and including the
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removal of a two damage to save tree doesn't happen often,
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but when it does, they can take that tree out
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for you and then they can replace it with something
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from their tree farm where they grow native Texas trees.
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Get them out. We're gonna talk about next week. We're
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gonna talk about winterizing your trees and how important that is.
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I have Irwin on I believe it's next Friday. I've
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got him scheduled for be sure to listen in on
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that one two eight one three two zero eighty two
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zero one two eight one three two zero eighty two
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zero one or the website championstree dot com. That's championstree
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dot com.
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Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
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That's why every few months we wash them. Check his
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fluids and spring on a fresh cod o wax. This
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is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back
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to fifty plus. Thanks for listening, certainly do appreciate it.
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On this what fourth or fifth great day in a row.
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In this segment, we're gonna talk about what to look
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for and what to expect when it's time and it's
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a big decision when it's time to move out of
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your home or maybe your family's telling you you need
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to even if you don't want to, And to talk
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about that, I'm gonna bring in Philip Taylor from the Buckingham,
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one of Houston's best choices in this in this realm,
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Welcome aboard, Philip, I.
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Dug thinks it's good to spend time with you.
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Don't be coughing through the phone on me now.
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We talked about that a little bit.
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I know about ahead of you. Sound great, man, You're fine.
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The Buckingham Big Place twenty three acres gated community over
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there on Woodway that offers pretty much every level of
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care a family member could need to do. Most senior
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living facilities follow a similar model of providing as much
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or as little assistance as a resident might need for
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long term or do more of them kind of stay
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in one or two lanes.
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Most of them stay in one or two lanes. There's
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just a broad mix of communities that have different services,
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different combinations of services. It's the small percentage of communities
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that have an independent living where people are definitely going
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to come to live permanently and then knowing they're going
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to a community that has the full continuum of care.
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That's the small percentage that do that. And when I
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say full continuum, it's assisted living, it's memory support, skilled nursing,
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long term care. Most people who've had stays in the
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hospitals will come here for short term rehab, and you
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know those are usually if you've had to stay in
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the hospital for three nights, then Medicare is going to
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reimburse your stay when you come here for rehab. So
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we've got it all. There's some other communities that have
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it all, but I would say most are just sort
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of a combination of that.
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Kind of assisted nursing, maybe what level, whatever level of
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care somebody needs, whatever their reasons for moving out of
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the home, whether they did it voluntarily, or their sibling
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or their children push them out. Whatever I'd imagine a
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lot of them arrive with some apprehension and concern about
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fitting in. How do facilities such as yours help these
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folks adapt to their new surroundings.
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Well, we have in most communities will have marketing events
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where they might have a resident panel where they can
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come and talk to the residents, ask them questions, and
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maybe luncheons where you do a presentation about your community.
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Sometimes we'll have people come stay a night or two
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at the Buckingham on our dime, call it a staycation,
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so they can get to know the staff, get to
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know the residents. And because we're in constant contact with
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a lot of people, I tell them to come often
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to the Buckingham because once you determine that it's the
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place that you take seriously and you think you may
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move there, we actually want you to be assimilated by
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the time you do in, so you know how to
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get around, you know who you're talking to, you know
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the food and where to get it, and all those
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types of things. So it's good to visit often. And
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it's not a burden to us that you do. It's
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not you know, we're not you're not telling us that
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you're making a commitment because you're coming, but we know
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that you're here to take a serious lead and to
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get to know us.
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Yeah, one of the you answered one of the questions
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I had on the list, is one tour of a
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property enough to really evaluate it?
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And I would I would.
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Really no, It's it's a lot. I would recommend people
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visit multiple communities, so each time you walk through the
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door of a community, you get just a different feel
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from that community.
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You need.
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You'll get a different feel that'll that'll be telling you
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need to try the food. And and then of course
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everybody's got a different pricing model. So it's a lot.
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It's a lot to absorb for people, and so it's
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uh for those people who plan ahead, that's that's the
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best way to go, because we always tell people, you know,
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it's better to come five years too early than five
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years too late.
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Amen to that.
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Is it okay at most places to show up un
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announced for tours? I know you have to be respectfuble
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of the employee's time, but is it kind of okay
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to just walk in and see what's really happening in there?
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It's okay to do that. We would prefer scheduled tours
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and appointments, But sometimes walk ins can really they can
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turn out to happen very well. In fact, I had
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one one day and I had no idea. She was
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ready to do business, and we were able to do
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a tour, answer all the questions, and you know, they
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signed the paperwork that same day. So you just never know.
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Yeah, that's that's that's ideal circumstances. Of course, what's the
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what's the usual timeline from first contact to somebody signing in?
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Oh man, We've had people that have been in the
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system since two thousand and two. We didn't even open
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until two thousand and five. Sometimes it's a matter of days,
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but usually it's a matter of weeks and months before
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somebody finally makes that decision.
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Yeah, I know somebody who's in the middle of that
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right now, and she's probably four or five months into
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the decision and still still at.
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It, you know, m hm. And there's scenarios where the
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kids are doing the legwork and the discovery, and sometimes
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they're not always on the same page as mom or dad,
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and and there are sometimes where the kids know that
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it's time and they will put their foot down sometimes
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and ultimately, you know, when you have a resident panel.
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You'll have a resident of a community that's talking about
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that experience. And when they move in, and then they
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get settled in, ultimately you'll hear them say, you know,
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the kids were right, we were wrong. It was the
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right thing to do.
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We're down to thirty seconds, Philip. I hate to do
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it too.
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But for somebody mind audience who's on the fence about
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moving into someplace like the Buckingham, what's the most reassuring
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thing you'd tell them about taking that step in their lives.
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Well, I would say one important thing to think about
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is when you have a culture like ours that's designed
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to offer a plethora of socialization, or a good fitness program,
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a great culinary team, you know, think about how important
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it is for you to move into a culture where
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you actually become a better version of yourself than being
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alone at home.
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That's really good. That's good, Philip, Thank you so much.
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I've got a run. I appreciate it. Yes, sir, here
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Buckingham Houston dot com.
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Go there.
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You'll see what I'm talking about. A beautiful place.
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All right, we got to take a little break care
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On the way out, I'll tell you about Cedar Cove
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RV Resort. Cedar Cove ARV Resort is down at the
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end of Tri City Beach Road, right there on Galveson Bay,
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and boy, we are coming into a wonderful season to
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be spending days and nights on the water down that way.
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If you have an RV, a motor home, a pop
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up trailer, whatever it is, you can park it on
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a concrete slab. Enjoy the rustling of the wind through
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the palm fronds. Enjoy the water lapping onto the shoreline.
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There sewer water and electric at every site. Wi FI,
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the bathhouse, the showers, the convenience store, because everybody forgets
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something when they go that way, and it's a pretty
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dog one good fishing this time of year. Actually, if
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you want to stay up right to sunset, or maybe
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get up right before dawn and throw a little bait
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out there, run down to Thompson's, get yourself some live shrimping,
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come back and see what you can catch. By the way,
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if you don't own a vehicle to park on one
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of those slabs, the owners Alan Nancy Kibbi will be
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happy to rent you one. They have an RV that's
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available for that, so you can kind of try it
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before you buy it. As goes a motor home, that's
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a big investment. If you're not really sure you want
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that type of lifestyle, try it out first with their RV.
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I think that's a fantastic way to get a taste.
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And I'm pretty sure you're gonna like what you're what's
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been cooking down there Cedar Cove rvresort dot com, Cedar
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Cove rvresort dot com.
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What's life without a net? I suggest you go to bed,
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sleep it off.
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Just wait until the show's over.
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Sleepy.
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Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
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Fourth and final segment of the show starts.
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Now. I hope you've enjoyed it so far. Let me
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see where I want to go here? Do I want
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to get into something really newsy? We don't have a
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breaking news sound, so that's a right.
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Oh.
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By the way, there were two things going on out
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in California, both of which involved Governor gambling. Gavin Newsom
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out there betting the farm that his weirdness is going
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to somehow gain him favor with the American people. He's
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got to be thinking he's going to be the next
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president of the United States and I got a big
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old hunch that he's dead or on because he keeps
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making mistakes, the first of which is going to infuriate
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Second Amendment people. What he's done out there is passed
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into law AB thirteen forty four, which establishes an anti
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gun law in four test counties where district attorneys are
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going to be able to file directly for gun violence
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restraining orders gvros, and those orders, when granted, will allow
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enforcement to just confiscate any and all firearms owned by
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the person whose name's on the order. The plan, they
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say is to track results through twenty thirty one, with
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annual reporting to the California Firearm Violence Research Center at
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UC Davis starting in twenty twenty seven. This one kind
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of falls into my give them an inch file even
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before I'm gonna make a bet with you, even before
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the first reports are filed. Watch for Newsom to expand
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the program because he's heard it's working. That's what he's
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going to tell you. I've heard great things about this program.
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We have kept a lot of people from having guns
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who don't need guns. Well, who's to say when you're
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gonna need one and when you're not. If somebody is
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just as bonkers, and there is legitimate reason to think
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they are an imminent danger to society. That's one thing.
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But this notion that district attorneys can it's all going
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to depend on the weight of the evidence against the
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person who's in question, because if they run amuck with this,
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which I think they will, there will be a lot
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of people being disarmed and just left vulnerable and targeted
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by false reporting to district attorneys because once I got
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a hunch that once something crosses their desk, they have
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to follow up on it.
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They have to do due diligence.
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And if the person who's making the complaint against someone
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else and thinks they might be in danger comes in
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and says that guy over there as crazy as alone
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and I'm scared he's gonna shoot me. DA is going
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to have to do something. And if they can't prove
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the complain it wrong, then the guy on the other
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end of it might just have his Second Amendment rights
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taken away, just on a hunch that somebody's got. It's
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a very slippery slope and I'm not really I'm not
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really into it. I'm not really for it, but we'll
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have to see. We'll just have to see how it
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works out out there. That's a good place for it.
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At least I'm to take care of that. Joe, Well,
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a minute left too, left? Two good, let's do this.
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Halloween's on the way, and wouldn't you know it, an
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online betting site. It doesn't say which one here, it
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doesn't matter, has crunched the numbers, it says, and figured
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out your kid's chances of getting different types of candy
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on Halloween. A sixty seven percent chance, it says here,
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that they'll get at least one Reese's peanut butter cup.
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Doesn't say whether full sized or bite sized. My guess
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is it's probably going to be bite sized. These days,
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you have a thirty three percent chance of getting a
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Twix and a two percent chance.
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Of finding a toothbrush in the bag. That should be higher.
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It just seems I saw something about some hilarious dentist
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and his idea is on a cavity free Halloween.
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But I didn't read it.
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It just the entire premise boored me to tears. Is
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apparently a trend of people taking many pumpkins to Starbucks too,
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which really bothers me. What they're doing is they're taking
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these little little pumpkins to Starbucks, all hollowed out, and
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then getting the Bearista to fill them with the drink
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they order. That's cute and all, but it also is
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against public health law. I would think to bring produce
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in from outside and have the people who are making
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drinks for everybody have to touch your pumpkin. It's kind
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of like dogs in the grocery store. We talked about that.
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I believe yesterday how much that bothers me. There is
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a crazy AI milestone I'll give you on the way
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out here. AI has found its way into just about
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everything and is on the verge or beyond the verge,
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depending on who you ask and what you read. Of
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being able to perform without any more human help, AI
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is just basically saying we got it. Step out of
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the way, or we will destroy you. Study found that
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over half of the online articles written now either all
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by AI or mostly by AI. Fortunately, Will and I
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are still live. Will take care of you.
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